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gee Ⓐ⚑

[Nouveau podcast] LHDG25. L'obsolescence de Murphy

Nouvelle chronique où je vous propose une théorie assez simple mais qui se vérifie pas mal en pratique : plus un objet est complexe, plus il a de chances de tomber en panne. C'est pour ça que j'ai tendance à aimer les objets simples.

▶️ Écouter cette chronique : grisebouille.net/lhdg25-lobsol
📗 Le livre best of : editions.ptilouk.net/gb10ans
❤️ Soutien : ptilouk.net/#soutien

Grise Bouille · LHDG25. L'obsolescence de Murphy
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#GriseBouille#chronique#radio
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marie verdeil

BOOK LAUNCH — How to make books more sustainable?

→ How to make books more sustainable? Inspired by the image compression on its solar-powered website, Low-tech Magazine squeezed the article catalog of their three-volume book series into just one book. Compressing the content — an editorial and design choice — produces a larger reduction in resource use than printing on recycled paper could ever do.

→ During this book launch event, we present our "Compressed Book Edition", followed by a public discussion on sustainability in the book publishing business. We also have a number of copies for sale during the event.
18:45 Doors open
19:00 Book launch
19:30 Q&A
19:45 Book sale / snacks & drinks / networking / low-tech showcase ;)

📌 Barcelona — Akasha HUB, Carrer de la Verneda 19 (El Clot)

📝 sign-up on meetup! (meetup.com/akashabarcelona/eve)
🗯 poster by our intern Hugo Lopez

Poster for a book lauch. A book with illustrated cover is being compressed by wood clamps on all side, illustrating the idea of shrinking the book.
#lowtechmagazine#lowtech#compression
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Her Doing

This is one time I would be glad for QT - this by @Snos is too good not to share, but she posted in German & I'm not sure everyone's instance is set up to translate.

This is how Canadians dry their clothes! 🍁 Who needs an electric dryer when you have a moose? 👍

The best part is moose are *mobile*, able to stay in the path of the sun as it moves - or *out* of the path of super-winds that will blow your socks & smalls into the next county. 😄

#LowTech #NoTech #Laundry #Moose
#Illustration

A friendly colour illustration (such as you might see in a children's book) of a moose with a large, multi-pronged rack, with a thin rope stretching from the two prongs furthest apart so as to create a clothesline. Every inch of the clothesline is pinned with scarves, socks, stockings, and smalls (underwear), as well as dangling from some of the prongs.
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Thomas

I've done a lot of automation throughout my career, and I have no idea what I would need a smart home for.

I can happily walk to that light switch at the wall, the heating control has little potential for optimization beyond setting the temperature below "T-shirt level". I can open and close the window shutters and look for the plants on the window sill while I do it.

I don't need to think of "OpSec" and I don't need to change batteries.

What did I miss?
#smarthome #lowtech

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Her Doing

Dear Lovely Peeps:

An (re?) #Introduction might be in order. I have decided it is time to stop wandering & settle down in a nice sunny garden. 😊

I've been around since 2016, and wherever I am, I try to create a wee gentle eddy of peace & whimsy in my corner of the Fediverse. 😇

I have a #hope-full perspective. Am strongly influenced by #DoctorWho. 😄 Believe in a #SolarPunk / #HopePunk future. Manage to find small good things to celebrate every day. 🎉

Am interested in #FOSS, #travel, #photography, #sustainability, #accessibility, #reading, #writing, being #outside, #LowTech / #NoTech solutions, and a whole lot more.

(I have a neuro-spicy brain so 'a whole lot more' really is a LOT! 😄 )

Come in, have a scroll, and maybe breathe a little easier. I hope you enjoy your time here. 💛

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Florent ⏚

Le @ffv_strasbourg a désormais son compte masto !

Ce festival de films dédié à l'#écologie est organisé de manière décentralisée. Né en Suisse en 2006, ce compte est celui de l'édition de #strasbourg

On y invite des acteurs de tous horizons ( #biodiversité #agriculture #alimentation #lowtech #sante #logiciellibre #histoire ...) pour promouvoir des initiatives locales et inciter le public à l' #engagement #militant

Le repouet amène des gens dans les collectifs militants pour l'écologie !

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youen

Nous nous sommes donc lancés dans la conception d'un boîtier électrique réellement open source git.vhelio.org/vhelio/vheliote

C'est un travail en cours, j'attaque très prochainement la fabrication d'un premier prototype.

Il n'y a rien de très compliqué, mais comme toujours de nombreux détails à penser et peaufiner pour permettre la fabrication simple et bon marché de matériel durable.

(matériel #LowTech : utile, accessible, durable)

Capture d'écran du rendu par Kicad du circuit imprimé. Ce circuit est conçu pour être facilement fabricable aussi bien par des entreprises qui font des PCB double couche, que chez soi en simple couche (il faudra juste ajouter des fils à la place des 3 pistes rouges visibles sur l'image, et il y a déjà des pads pour les souder facilement). Tous les composants sont traversants pour faciliter les soudures. Attention, ce circuit ne fonctionne peut-être pas, il n'a pas encore été testé !
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Attempts at not making a mess sweeping the chimney. Worked, but turns out the chimney was pretty clean and instead I'd missed one section of the masonry heater flue maze last time.

Not quite figured out how to clean that one without a mess yet. Even took the round plugs out. Turns out one is bricked up from the inside and the other pointless as you can sweep it from elsewhere.

Got to practice my pottery skills putting those back in.

A masonry heater, painted a dubious peach colour. The chimney in the corner has two bin bags taped to the wall below the access door, terminating in a cardboard tray on the floor with chimney sweeping tools, extensions and gloves.
Masonry heater flue maze access door (one of many), opened and a metal brush on a flexible metal stick inserted. Black soot is coming out. It's partially being caught by a dust pan, some by the cardboard tray, but some missed. A peach painted round plug is in the tray as well as a screwdriver and some now dirty sweeping stick extensions.
Round plug removed from a ceramic tile. Inside is more clay and a the rear of a refractory brick, making this plug seem somewhat pointless.
Same round plug, reinstalled with some clay, still dark brown and moist. There's some superficial cracking from minor foundation movement, but no leakage.
#DIY#Chimney#Heating
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Life with a masonry heater: 40 hours to cool down, 6 hours to heat back up.

It's fine, but you can't leave the house for days in winter. A backup system might be useful. As primary heating system it works great.

It requires more experience than a pushbutton system, but doesn't break down randomly, you just need to sweep it occasionally.

Fetching firewood and getting off your butt every now and then to put a log in is quite healthy.

Living room thermometer as we found it upon our return, ~40 hours after the last firing. It reads 13.3°C and 35% relative humidity.
Less than six hours and a big fire later, same thermometer reads 19.5°C and 30% relative humidity.
#Heating#MasonryHeater#LowTech
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ᴇʀʜᴀʀᴅ ᴍᴀʀɪᴀ ᴋʟᴇɪɴ

3 Leitplanken für den Klimakampf 2.0 von @muellertadzio:
1. Klimakampf 2.0 ist nicht appellativ: eigenständiges Handeln und Selbstermächtigung, statt Appelle an Institutionen
2. Klimakampf 2.0 findet in einer endlichen Welt statt: Konflikte solidarisch gestalten, im Rahmen planetarer Grenzen + knapper Ressourcen
3. Klimakampf 2.0 beinhaltet upskilling: Wiederaneignung praktischer Fähigkeiten
steadyhq.com/de/friedlichesabo
#Klimakollaps #Klimakrise #TalkCollapse #Lowtech #Degrowth #solidarischesPreppen

Steady3 Leitplanken für den Klimakampf 2.0: Mehr als nur prepping for futureLeitplanken für den Klimakampf 2.0: er ist 1. nicht appellativ, er macht selbst; er findet 2. in 1 begrenzten Welt statt; er muss 3. aktivistisches Upskilling beinhalten.
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Bone Daddy

So I like reading about low-tech solutions to everyday problems and how we can potentially live more sustainably. But I can't really do many of those things in my rented flat.*

Does anyone know a good blog/wiki talking about projects people could do in rented flats.

* both because of space and because I obviously can't install things.

#lowtech#sustainability
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